Gettin' sneaky in the kitchen

I've been using my new Sneaky Chef cookbook for a couple of weeks, and it's working! So far, I have made three of the purees and added them to our standbys. Specifically, I have put purple puree (spinach and blueberries) in taco meat, orange puree (carrots and sweet potatoes) in corn bread, and white puree (cauliflower and zucchini) in mashed potatoes and in boxed mac & cheese.

Belle didn't eat the taco meat, but that wasn't a big deal -- she doesn't eat it anyway. Wes ate it, though, and even for Kevin and me, it felt good to be getting the extra nutrition. Kevin was, I think, a bit offended that I messed with tacos, but you really couldn't taste the difference, so he was won over in the end.

Everyone ate the corn bread and loved it. Really, I thought the addition of orange puree was an improvement, because it made it less dry. The mashed potatoes with white puree were also delicious.

And most surprisingly, today at lunch both kids gobbled up the mac & cheese. It was so hard for me to keep my mouth shut and not gloat to Belle that she was eating cauliflower and zucchini.